{"id":482954,"date":"2026-02-16T04:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482954\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T04:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:23:12","slug":"geelongs-tanner-bruhn-misses-hawks-pre-season-game-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482954\/","title":{"rendered":"Geelong\u2019s Tanner Bruhn misses Hawks pre-season game due to illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanner Bruhn\u2019s return to football will have to wait another week, with <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/afl\/tanner-bruhn-primed-for-first-game-in-520-days-as-sam-de-koning-flags-ruck-return\/news-story\/eb1c8b7459b87fcc4f82d790b2b205ef\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"eb1c8b7459b87fcc4f82d790b2b205ef\" data-tgev-label=\"afl\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Geelong midfielder <\/a>a late withdrawal with illness for the Cats\u2019 match simulation clash against Hawthorn.<\/p>\n<p>Bruhn was stood down by the AFL last season as he fought criminal charges which were officially withdrawn in November.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old\u2019s last competitive match came against the Hawks in match simulation 12 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Bruhn has impressed his teammates on the track this pre-season playing through the midfield and across halfback.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Guthrie will also miss with illness and is among a host of outs in a severely weakened Cats side without half of their 2025 grand final team.<\/p>\n<p>Geelong has an official practice match against Carlton at Ikon Park on Wednesday February 25. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanner Bruhn\u2019s return to football will have to wait another week, with the Geelong midfielder a late withdrawal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-482954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}